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My bad. I meant left-over embryos from IVF.
I've just written an essay about it in the Laws, and the Bible thread so I won't go into detail here, but basically when a couple undergoes IVF they conceive more embryos than are needed in case the first batch doesn't work and the woman fails to get pregnant. If she succeeds and doesn't want any more children the embryos (which are just clumps of cells) are defrosted and thrown away. Researchers want to take these unwanted embryos as they are effectively made up entirely of stem cells. Yet religious groups claim that it is immoral to test on what they claim is a living person, even though the embryos would be thrown out anyway.
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so let the scientists be immoral and go to hell... it's their choice...